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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Browse \Browse\ (brouz), n. [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf also Armor. brousta to browse. See {Bristle}, n., {Brush}, n.] The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. --Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Browse \Browse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browsed} (brouzd); p. pr & vb n. {Browsing}.] [For broust, OF brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See {Browse}, n., and cf {Brut}.] 1. To eat or nibble off as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. Yes like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst --Shak. 2. To feed on as pasture; to pasture on to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. --Tennyson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Browse \Browse\ (brouz), v. i. 1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer. 2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: browse n 1: reading superficially or at random [syn: {browsing}] 2: the act of feeding by continual nibbling [syn: {browsing}] v 1: shop around not necessarily buying [syn: {shop}] 2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: {crop}, {graze}, {range}, {pasture}] 3: look around casually and randomly, as through files and directories on a computer 4: eat lightly, try different dishes [syn: {graze}]
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